- Foresight 2010’s live stream via TechZulu/Stickam was judged unusable due to low quality and poor archiving, prompting calls to adopt the Singularity Summit’s ustream model for future transhumanist conferences.  
- Hod Lipson introduced Eureqa (http://ccsl.mae.cornell.edu/eureqa), an automated equation-discovery tool from Cornell, and framed the next frontier as “machine teaching” rather than machine learning.  
- A “hello-world” DIY gene-therapy proposal was floated: engineer gut bacteria to metabolize betacyanin from Mammillaria fruit to produce vividly colored urine as a visible success marker, with methylene blue offered as an off-the-shelf alternative.  
- Open-manufacturing advocates pressed for release of CAD files for Lipson’s 3-D-printed truss-crawling robot on Thingiverse and asked when Fab@Home v2 would ship, but received no answers.  
- Curated open-access paper collections were shared covering longevity, stem cells, and neuroscience (http://heybryan.org/books/papers/longevity/, http://heybryan.org/books/papers/stem-cells/, http://heybryan.org/books/papers/neuro/).  
- A portable nomadic workflow was sketched combining Austin’s live WiMax network, HUD glasses, and foldable keyboards to enable untethered mobile computing around the city.  
- Plans for an open-source DNA synthesizer are underway, with the builder weighing purchase of a used unit on eBay versus designing one from scratch.  
- RNA lassos and transient RNAi were discussed as reversible tools for short-term gene regulation in pigment pathways, while concerns were raised about exogenous pigments interfering with clinical assays.  
- A recent paper on “Efficient gene delivery to the adult and fetal CNS using pseudotyped non-integrating lentiviral vectors” was highlighted as a promising route for safe neural gene therapy.  
- A new BCI project was announced, emphasizing that raw EEG is insufficient and that multimodal sensing approaches are under active development.